Mahler’s Zen
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the
February 14, 2021
Category: Gustav Mahler
“Embrace Everything: The World of Gustav Mahler”
The new podcast series Embrace Everything – The World of Gustav MahlerTM, a multi-season exploration of the composer’s complete symphonies, launched with Symphony No. 1 on
January 26, 2021
The Homeless Life
I am thrice homeless: as a Bohemian-native among the Austrians, as an Austrian among the Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an
January 17, 2021
Mahler’s Guts, Beethoven’s Ninth, Seung Sahn’s 365
In Zen tradition, it is said that transmission happens when “You can stand on your teacher’s head.” This means, you have attained penetration of the
December 19, 2020
Walking Like Mahler
“It’s most extraordinary that Mahler – with his fine sense of rhythm – cannot walk two successive steps at the same pace. Instead, he changes
October 31, 2020
[ 2 ] Oh, Bernstein on Beethoven’s “Eroica”
And so, it metastasizes. This ineluctable concept-listening disease… Since that listening of the final movement of Mahler’s First Symphony, I fell into study this eveningof
October 21, 2020
[ 1 ] Bernstein/Abbado::: Two Views of the Second Half of the Fourth Movement of Mahler’s First Symphony
I have written many times before about the strange fact of my love for classical music (leaning strongly to the Austro-Germanic tradition), and yet the
October 19, 2020
The Last Known Photo of Mahler
According to the respected Mahlerian, Norman Lebrecht, this “long-rumoured photograph of Gustav Mahler being stretchered off a train on his final arrival in Vienna on
October 6, 2020
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